Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 209
neeven if it cost next to nothing. If a good piano be wanted that will do good service, it is far better togive a fair price for an instrumentthat has been sent out by a manu-facturer of established reputationthan to buy a cheap article that maybe good for nothing after a few yearsuse. It is not… … upiinn r piano.elaborate ornamentation In the present clay, most, if not all, manufacturers of pianos sell their instru-ments on the three years system, by which a good instrument may be obtained inan easy manner, a desideratum to many when it is considered that it is not everyone who can manage to…
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